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Union Pearl
Font Design
2017
Illustration = Akari Katsuta
Original Union Pearl was the first English display typeface,
designed to be used for fancies-headings and words of distinction.
It is thought to have been cast by the somewhat obscure
but very English Grover type foundry in London.
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Wedding welcome sign
Design with Kazuhiro Harada